Big Fish

Big Fish is an enchanting and whimsical treat for the whole family to experience. Delightfully entertaining, beautifully filmed, and heartwarming, this film is an amazing journey of Daniel Wallace's novel, so spectacularly directed by Tim Burton. Big Fish touches on fantasy, adventure, heroics, and the love and importance of a family.

Big Fish is story telling at one of its finest. A movie so full of magic, innocence, feeling, and vision. I am a fan of Tim Burton and have been for some time now. Big Fish is an exceptional movie that shows cases so much of this man's creativity.

The story of Big Fish is quite simple. Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) returns home to spend what little time he has left with his dying father Edward (Albert Finney) after not speaking with him for three years and to give support to his mother Sandra (Jessica Lange). Will needs to find out the truth about who his father really is. As a boy he was told many stories of how his father, when he was a young man (played by Ewan McGregor) lived his life. Those stories, far fetched as they may have seemed, were believed way past Will's adult years and now he wants to know why so many lies about his father's life were told to him and others repeatedly and so proudly.

Big Fish is a story upon a story upon a story. So many outrageous, scary, and exciting stories unfold. Those stories are amusing, clever, eerie, and warming to the soul. But, are those stories real or just fables told so many times that they indeed become more of a work of non-fiction than just a make believe story told to amuse the listener?

In a scene, one of my particular favorites is when Ed Bloom covers the ground in Daffodils to show the deep love he has for Sandra ( this time played terrifically by Alison Lohman). A gorgeous moment in Edward's life that depicted an overwhelming amount of courage and sensitivity without a flicker of doubt in what he set out to accomplish so eloquently.